Quotes About Wisdom

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

Invest time, don't spend it.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Secret to time is beyond our reason.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

No worry before its time.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Time is not kind to everything.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.